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- Location(s): Freiburg, Berlin
- Genre(s): Thriller, In Translation
- Era(s): contemporary
A gripping and atmospheric Black Forest Investigation featuring Detective Inspector Louise Bonì. “Oliver Bottini is one of the most sophisticated crime writers of modern times” Sunday Times In a Berlin hotel a man is beaten up, but it’s more...
The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. Born to a cabaret dancer and soon orphaned in a scandalous double murder, Lilly finds refuge at a Catholic orphanage, coming under...
- Location(s): London, Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1988 & 2016
In 1989, Saul is hit by a car on the Abbey Road crossing. He is fine; he gets up and goes to see his girlfriend, Jennifer. They have sex and then break up. He leaves for the GDR, where...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Early 1930s
In the final weeks of the Weimar Republic, as Hitler and his National Socialist party angle to assume control of Germany, beautiful girls are seen sleepwalking through the streets. Then, a young woman of mysterious origin, with her legs...
- Location(s): Berlin, Volgograd (Stalingrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2, mid 20th century
Desperate to escape the Eastern Front, Peter Faber, an ordinary German soldier, marries Katharina Spinell, a woman he has never met; it is a marriage of convenience that promises ‘honeymoon’ leave for him and a pension for her should...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1960s
Having shot someone in what he believed was self-defense in the chaos of 1963 Berlin, Wilderness finds himself locked up with little chance of escape. But an official pardon through his father-in-law Burne-Jones, a senior agent at MI6, means...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1920s
Franz Hessel was an observer par excellence of the increasingly hectic metropolis that was Berlin in the late 1920s. In Walking in Berlin, originally published in Germany in 1929, he captures the rhythm of Weimar-era Berlin, recording evidence of...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1989
Wallflower is four hours in the life of Molly Lenzfeld, sixteen-year-old New Yorker in Berlin. It’s Thanksgiving Day 1989, two weeks after the fall of the Wall. Molly, the daughter of a German-Jewish mother who fled the Nazis in...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): 1990
BERLIN, 1990. On a chilly early morning walk, Emil Grimm finds the body of his neighbour, fellow Stasi officer Lothar, lying dead with a bullet wound to the temple. Despite the appearance of suicide, Emil suspects murder, for as...
Zoo Station: Adventures in East and West Berlin
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
1980s Berlin. The life, the loves, the politics, the struggle of the Turks in Kreuzberg – this is a true depiction of “Alt-Berlin”
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